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An Unpublished Letter of William Gilmore Simms
No full textSmith uncovers a letter by the southern writer, William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870), in the Library collection. It describes his desperate attempt to republish some of his earlier works after the Civil War. Through his connections with fellow Fremasons in the north, he was able to
Some Notes on Scriptores Rei Rusticae
No full textHall explores "Scriptores Rei Rusticae," which signifies a grouping of Cato, Varro, and Columella in their works on agriculture; and to these should be added, for this article, the thirteenth century author Pietro de' Crescenzi. The Library of Rutgers University is fortunate in possessing some early editions of these writers, several of them excellent examples of German, Italian, and Polish book illustrators' art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Some Unpublished Letters of Paul Hamilton Hayne
No full textAfter receiving a positive review of his "Collected Poems" in "Harpers Monthly" (June, 1885) by Charles Dunham Deshler, Paul Hamilton Hayne ( 1830–1886) wrote Deshler and begins a correspondence with him. The letters from Hayne in this article reveal the toll the Civil War had taken on him as a "Traitor & Rebel.
Two Manhattan Land papers of the Seventeenth Century
No full textThis article concerns two land documents relating to Rutger Jacobsen, progenitor of the Rutgers family of New Netherland and New York
A Librarian's Philosophy
No full textCameron gives credit to his predecessor, George Osborn, University Librarian, with creating policies which he continued. He especially stresses operating the library with completely open stacks where the students were free to go to the books on the shelves. He has maintained that basic policy while the library expanded rapidly. He notes that "The problems of management will remain and will grow. These problems are problems of a kind of prosperity unknown in the past. The long tradition of bringing books and students together is still our guide."
A Librarian's Stroll Through Milton's Afterlife
No full text“A Librarian’s Stroll through Milton’s Afterlife” is a brief gallery tour of our favorite books in the exhibition, The Afterlife of John Milton. They are not necessarily curatorial favorites, assuming curators should want books that best illustrate the arguments underlying their show, nor a reader’s favorite—books with the most powerful or influential or recognizable texts. Although all of them do support the theme of the show and possess famous and astonishing texts, our favorites are first and foremost distinctive, one-of-a-kind objects, with their own unique histories and compelling stories. A few of these are modest in scope—amusing anecdotes, or bibliographic jokes—but one or two are truly remarkable
